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Signed Goran Warff bowl for Kosta

Beautiful glass is generally glass which interacts with light in an interesting way.  Run your eye over some of our listings and you'll see what I mean.  This one has large lobes of glass on the side of the bowl to create a pattern and r...
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Barbini Murano opalescent 59cm 4.4kg ribbed console bowl

May 14 2007 and we're back into listing again.  Here's a special piece to celebrate.  It's a HUGE 9.5 ib, 24 inch, Barbini console with curled tips.  This design, minus the curly ends appears in the 1965 Weil Ceramics & Glass, A...
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3kg Sandeberg design for Kosta - engraved lamp with owls

We sold three of these in a 1kg size a year ago to a UK antique dealer who clearly had an eye for what was cool.  Here's the bigger version.  Sandeberg was Kosta's mid-century lamp specialist.  This is probably from the 1970s . See ...
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Large (3kg) 1950s Flygsfors lamp

This lamp was too big to take photos with a lampshade on in our photography set.  My colleague, Pernilla, who has seen many more of these than I have, has never seen one this big before.  This is unsigned but clearly from Flygsfors in th...
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Classic 1950s large dark blue Per Lutken-designed Holmegaard Provence bowl

in the 1950s, Per Lutken and his glassblowers had developed a  technique for blowing glass using the steam from a wet wooden pin, inserted into a gather of molten glass.  Much of the unique look of Holmegaard pieces is a result of this t...
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Blue, signed Vicke Lindstrand 1960s sommerso vase for Kosta - one of two

Sets are great, as I keep saying. We have a total of four or these that we've picked up over time - blue, yellow, amber and purple.  Enjoy.  See: http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/1795 SOLD http://www.modernistglass.com/...
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Signed Lindstrand for Kosta 1950s heavy triangular bowl

Here's a Vicke Lindstrand bowl with the usual Lindstrand touch of class in the design, and the high standards of glassmaking of Kosta.  It's shown on the first page of the 1959 catalogue and was probably designed a year or two earlier.  ...
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FM Konstglass Ronneby art glass whale paperweight

For most of the glass we list, we understand how it was made, but this one has us stumped. Ernest Gordon used this technique or one similar when he was designing for Afors, but as far as we know, the Marcolin brothers have had the monopoly on it s...
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FM Konstglas Ronneby whale

Readers of this website may be familiar with the intricate patterns on some of the FM Konstglas figurines we've sold.  This one is more realistic, creating an impressive weathered, barnacled look for this whale.  We haven't seen one like...
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Pair of stylish labeled 1970s retro German vases from Walther

I can't emphasise enough, to new collectors, the value of sets. If one is good, two looks more than twice as good. These are groovy bud vases from Walther of Germany. The company has been in existence in one form or another since 1879, so the...
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